A system for the production of a beverage, more particularly a cold beverage,comprising a cartridge which has a reservoir filled with a beverage substance,and abeverage preparation unit having a cartridge receptacle in which the cartridgecan bereversibly inserted, and a cartridge discharge device which causes at leastpartialtransfer of the beverage substance from the reservoir into a mixing chamber.insidethe cartridge there is arranged a screen element on which the cartridgedischargedevice acts in order to transfer the beverage substance from the reservoirinto themixing chamber. The screen element is arranged between the cartridge dischargedevice and the beverage substance.
